Competition deadline: 31st August 2018 The STORGY ‘Shallow Creek’ Fiction Challenge is a competition that challenges writers around the world to create short stories (5,000 words maximum) based on characters,...

Competition deadline: 31st August 2018 For a quarter of a century, Link Age Southwark has been building friendships between older people and volunteers in order to end feelings of loneliness...

Competition deadline: 31st August 2018 To commemorate the 200th anniversary of the publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, poems and stories are invited in the Gothic tradition. What does Gothic mean...

Competition deadline: 31st July 2018 As part of the Iron Mountain Literature Festival, Leitrim County Council and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre with the support of the McGahern Estate developed the...

Competition deadline: 31st July 2018 The Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Competition is an annual short story competition open to writers from around the world, submissions accepted from March to...

Competition deadline: 20th July 2018 Short Story, Flash Fiction and Poetry Competitions 2018 The Michael Mullan Cancer Fund is seeking entries for their inaugural Short Story, Flash Fiction and Poetry...

Competition deadline: 30th June 2018 Claret Press is thrilled to announce the first MNDA short story competition! Net proceeds will go to support the Motor Neurone Disease Association (click here for...

Competition deadline: 18th June 2018 The 5th annual Creative Future Literary Awards 2018 opens for entries from under-represented writers of poetry and Short Fiction. The UK’s only national competition for...

Competition deadline: 14th June 2018 Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan are launching their third “Search for a Bestseller” competition to find a promising first-time writer. The prize is a £30,000...

Competition deadline: 8th June 2018 The Sunday Times/Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award, in association with Warwick University, is awarded for a full-length published or self-published...